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FIVE PRARIE AND SIX MILE POND BAPTIST CHURCHES

1878

Five Mile Prarie Hernando County - Pastor and P.O.:T. H. Jaudon,
Cork - Delegates: H. Ryals and Liburn Kersey, Jr.
Total Membership: 37 - Contributions: $1.60 - Meeting: 1st Sabbath - Remarks: Pititionary.

1879

Five Mile Prarie, Hernando County - Pastor and P.O.:R. T. Caddin,
Cork - Delegates: H. Ryals, and J. P. Smith
Baptised: 2 - Dismissed: 4 - Expelled: 6 - Total Membership: 32
Contributions: $2.25 - Sabbath Meeting: 1st: 1st Sunday.

1880

Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor: R. T. Caddin -
Delegates: H. D. Ryals, John Spivey
Baptised : 8 - Received by letter: 4 - Restored: 1 - Dismissed: 2 Expelled: 5
Total Membership: 32
Contributions: $2.50 _ Remarks: Formerly Five Mile Prarie.

1881

Six Mile Pond Hernando County
Pastor: T. H. Jaudon -
Delegates: H. D. Ryals and J. D. Spivey
Baptised: 1 - Received by letter: 2 - Restored: 2 - Expelled: 4
Total Membership: 37
Contributions: $2.50 - Days of Meeting: 1.

1882

Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor: T. H. Jaudon Delegates: H. D. Ryals and G. W. Reardon Received by Letter:2 - Restored: 1 - Expelled: 2 Total Membership: 36 Contributions: $3.15 - Sabbath Meeting: 4th.

1883

Six Mile Pond Hernando - Pastor: R. E. Bell Delegates: J. P. Smith Received by letter: 1 - Dismissed: 1 - Died: 1 - Loss: 2 - Gain: 1 Total Membership: 35 Contributions: $2.75 - Time of Meeting: 4th Sunday.

1884

Six Mile Pond - Pastor: R. T. Caddin
Clerk and their P.O.: James P. Smith, Tuckertown
Messengers: H. D. Ryals and James Kersey
Total Membership: 25
Contributions: $2.10 - Sabbaths of Meeting: 2nd.

Six Mile Pond - Pastor: R. T. Caddin
Delegates: J. P. Smith and Ban Guy
Baptised:5 - Received by letter: 3 - Expelled: 1 - Dismissed: 4
Total Membership: 28
Time of Meeting: 2nd Sunday.

Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor and P.O. H. D. Ryals, Richland
Clerk and P.O. E. M. Branch, Richland
Total Membership: 41 - Meeting: 2nd Sabbath.

Six Mile Pond - Pastor H. D. Ryals
Representatives: Eustis Smith
Baptised: 7 - Received: 2 Dismissed: 5
Total Membership: 35 - Contributions: $2.10

1888

Not represented.

1889

Six Mile Pond - Delegates: J. P. Smith and J. D. Hill
Increase by Letter: 2 - Baptism: 7 Restored: 5 - Decrease by letter: 5
Expelled: 6 - Total Membership: 45.

1890

Six Mile Pond - Delegates: H. D. Ryals
Increase by Letter: 4 - Baptism: 4 - Restored: 1 - Decrease by letter: 5
Died: 1 - Expelled: 5 - Total Membership: 42.

1891

Six Mile Pond Pasco County - Pastor and P.O.: R. T. Caddin, Richland
Clerk and P.O.: D. H. Ryals, Abbott
Increase by letter: 3 - Baptism: 6 - Decrease By letter: - By exclusion:2 - Died: 1
Membership last year: 44
Present Membership: Males 18 - Females 24
Total Membership: 42.

1892

Six Mile Pond Pasco County - Pastor and P.O. B.L. Ray, Dade City
Clerk and P.O: H. D. Ryals, Abbott
Increase by Baptism: 1 - By letter: 5 Decrease by letter: 1 - By exclusion: 7
Membership last year: 42
Total Membership: 40.

1893

Six Mile Pond - Pastor and P.O. B. L. Ray, Pasadena
Clerk and P.O. D. H. Ryals, Abbott
Increase by Baptism: 5 - By letter: 5
By restoration: 1 - Decrease by letter:2 - By exclusion: 1 - Died: 1
Membership last year: 32
Membership: Males 15 - Females 24
Membership last year 32
Total Membership: 39:

1898

Six Mile Pond Pastor: R. T. Caddin, Tampa
Clerk: M. J. Kersey, Abbott
Received by letter: 6 - Dismissed by letter: 1 - Expelled: 7
Membership: Males 17 - Females 24
Total Membership: 41.

1899

Six Mile Pond - Exclusion: 2
Membership: Males: 14 - Females: 25
Total Membership: 39

1900

Six Mile Pond Pasco County - Organized: 1878
Increase by Baptism: 11 - By Letter: 6 - By restoration: 1 - Died: 1
Membership: Males 19 - Females 37
Total Membership:56.

The Peter Karr Baillie family from Georgia just after the Civil War and extablished a trading post at Bailey's Bluff and later moved inland.The Barga family, Boyd family and Brown family, John and Mary also settled in the area. John G. "Gip" Brown who once owned Green Key and his wife Cora Stevenson Brown. Other Families were Clark family, Digman family, Edenfields family Frierson and the Gaines family. Benjamin H. Gaines served as Delegate for the Anclote Baptist Church and was a Trustee for the School Board. Basil Gaines served as Sheriff for Pasco County.

The Gause family, Harper family, Hill family and the Milbauer Family were in the area at this time. Richard Milbauer donated the cemetery property to the county. Other Families were Ransom and Russ of Elfers. John and Mary Sawyer, early settlers of the area are known to be interred at West Elfers Cemetery, but the location of their graves are unknown. The Sheffields came to the area from Georgia in the 1860s, other families were Smith, Stephens and Stevenson.

Other early settlers were Wiggins and Williams The James Whidden family who settled the Hidden Lakes area in the 1860's. Their sons Daniel and Crockett were killed during the "fued" the occuted in the late 1800's. Jacob Worley's family settled the Worley Lake and Lake Worrell Areas in the 1860's